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Sinking-Titanic Bouncy Castle
Posted by Merv on 2 July 2010 - 12:06am.
I'm not normally one to get het up about this sort of thing, but this is in poor taste, isn't it?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/switzerland/7863557/Tit...
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Know what you mean
Strange that there seems to be an unspoken statute of limitations on tragedies. One day people are speaking of then in hushed tones, the next they're a birrovalaff. There will be some point in the future when Stalin's crimes will be taken as lightly as Vlad The Impaler's.
I still think we're a while away
from the Collapsing Twin Towers edition of Jenga.
I think you need to dispatch an intrepid reporter to
Stalin-Land though ...
http://www.boingboing.net/2003/02/27/stalinland-the-dulle.html
http://boingboing.net/2006/05/03/lithuanias-stalinlan.html
I'd pay good money to read Kate's take ... or indeed Fraser ...
According to the time frame
That means that in two years' time the First World War will be funny.
Ahem
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackadder-Forth-Entire-Historic-Fourth/dp/B0000...
All down to how it's done.
Well, yes...
I don't think Blackadder Goes Forth ever reduced the First World War to simply laughing at it, belittling it or treating it disrespectfully.
"Tragedy plus time"
Sorry, I don't think it is
It looks fun to me. And no-one alive can really feel any personal pain towards the event can they?
"Went down like The Titanic" is in common use and not in the slightest bit offensive is it?
Well
I think that went down like the Titanic is a bit offensive. But then I have thought about it and often its lack of thought that makes some things seem inoffensive.
When will bouncy gas chambers be ok? There can't be too many survivors alive. I'm off to file my patent.....
Fair enough on first point; sorry to offend LB
But the second comment... one was an act of despicable sub-human nastiness, the other was a tragic accident almost a century ago.
No apologies needed.
I think its a good debate.
On the second point, I think the cause of loss of life is nearly always tragic (I certainly can't think of one that isn't). That loss is the something that should be respected and not just because someone, somewhere may be offended by a joke or an inflatable play thing.
The cause of the loss is certainly something that can add or multiply to the level of the tragedy (none more so than the holocaust). So inflatable gas chambers would certainly be more offensive than an inflatable Titanic but that doesn't mean that the Titanic inflatable is inoffensive.
Two words.
Plus a deliberate spelling mistake.
Led Zeppelin.
The Countess Eva von Zeppelin, back in the day...
was rather offended by a bunch of English scruffs besmirching the family name, so they changed their name to The Nobs for a gig in Copenhagen:
From Wikipedia...
The shrieking monkeys
Four more from them ...
If it's about the passage of time
then are we now OK for the Bouncy Moorgate Tube Crash?
Fair enough
As I said, it's not something that bothered me as such, and I am always interested in alternative opinions to my own (despite what my wife thinks!).
On reflection, I think it is an odd choice of design more than anything. Like you, I wouldn't expect anyone personally involved to be insulted, but even if it had been a generic sinking ship, I would have thought it in poor taste - a bit like having one designed to look like a burning house (perhaps with trapped occupants screaming at the window). After all, there are plenty of other designs that could have provided as fun an experience.
Bouncy castles are fresh in my mind
cos we just hired one for a family do in our garden and kids from 3-13 had hours of fun. And by putting the rain cover on, it made a fantastic goal where kids and adults could shoot as hard as they liked and the keeper could dive freely without hurting himself. Top stuff and money really well spent.
So...seeing the pic above made me think how much fun they'd have also had with that (it's a slide really), especially as they have no detailed knowledge of the Titanic other than the film.
I can see how the bar of the offence-ometer might be moved (and certainly can now) but I have to say I feel neutral.
How about this animated version?
"A full-length animated feature, based on the legend of the Titanic"
"Legend", you say? And there I was thinking it was a true story...
Lots more on this abomination here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn
I find bouncy castles offensive full stop...
what's wrong with conkers and marbles? Kids today... parp... grumble... pffft... honk... sigh...
Heh heh heh
'Honk'
Heh heh heh
If you ask me...
this is a just a case of the Swiss trying to shake off their goody two-shoes image; they're still pissed off about that speech in The Third Man.
Just get over it, Switzerland, all right? It was a long time ago!
The lsat time I went on a bouncy castle
was on a work 'fun day' of intercompany bonding.
Only, someone was sick in the corner and I rolled into it. There was bouncing chunks everywhere.
They always smell of sick anyway, don't they?
I put my back out
I was in mid air when a small child tumbled into exactly the spot where I was about to land, and if he had taken all 90kg of me he would have known about it, bouncy castle or no bouncy castle. All I could do was stick my arms and legs out so I was braced against the floor and side when I landed. Due to inertia, the rest of me carried on at the same speed as before.
At work the next day someone asked why I was rubbing my spine. I confessed that I had been on a bouncy castle, and she told me that she had assumed I had been engaged in more vigorous sex than is wise for one of my years. I asked how she knew that that wasn't exactly what I had been doing on the bouncy castle.
Bouncy Castle Inspector
Spent 3 years as a member of the organising committee for the local neighborhood festival here in Spain. Fireworks, discos, full band, pet shows, beauty pageants and barbeques, the whole shebang. Anyway, one of the most pleasurable aspects of the whole thing was to try out the various bouncy castles ( King-Kong shaped ! )and trampolins, all in the name of health and safety.
The whole shebang
So did you ever persuade them to put the bouncy castle beneath the bell-tower for the donkey to land on?
In a similar vein...
...We know that whenever there's a tragedy, inappropriate jokes are never far behind. So is this a recent phenomenon, or in 1912, were there Titanic jokes?
Whatdya call steerage passengers on the Titanic?
Ballast.
Word readers' joke
I don't mind that they've done a bouncy castle of the sinking of the Titanic.
I just pray they never do one of Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet.